Per this article the FIA has tweaked the curfew regs:
"Secondly, the team personnel curfew - which prevents team members from being in the paddock during specified periods - has been extended from six to eight hours on Thursday nights. The number of exceptions allowed during a season has also been reduced from four to two."
Being an ex-software developer, and therefore being a combination of a) a devious mind, and b) seeing any rule as being a challenge to still do whatever I want to do with actually breaking the rules, I wondered how effective this would really be. What's to stop any team, especially one of the wealthier ones, from keeping a well-equipped trailer (or two) off-circuit and having the boys doing as much as possible after hours so that when they get back to the paddock they're just putting things together?
"Secondly, the team personnel curfew - which prevents team members from being in the paddock during specified periods - has been extended from six to eight hours on Thursday nights. The number of exceptions allowed during a season has also been reduced from four to two."
Being an ex-software developer, and therefore being a combination of a) a devious mind, and b) seeing any rule as being a challenge to still do whatever I want to do with actually breaking the rules, I wondered how effective this would really be. What's to stop any team, especially one of the wealthier ones, from keeping a well-equipped trailer (or two) off-circuit and having the boys doing as much as possible after hours so that when they get back to the paddock they're just putting things together?